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“I think the problem right now is everybody gets their news sources in silos and they just keep getting reinforced with certain ideas. I went to a neighbor’s house the day after the 2020 election, their flag was upside down. “There’s a lot of life out there besides arguing about nothing and telling lies, and so I made a choice …

“Moscow Marjorie has reached a new low. You know, during the Russian Revolution, Lenin talked about American journalists who were writing glowing reports about Russia at the time as ‘useful idiots.’ And I don’t even think that Marjorie reaches that level of being a useful idiot here. She is just mouthing the Russian propaganda, and really hurting American foreign policy …

“My experience with Marjorie is, people have talked to her about not filing articles of impeachment on President Biden before he was sworn into office, on not filing articles of impeachment that were groundless made on other individuals in the Biden administration. And she was never moved by that. She was always focused on her social media account. And Moscow …

Axios reports: Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) on Thursday dealt one final blow to House Republican leadership one day before leaving Congress by signing Democrats’ foreign aid discharge petition. Buck is the first Republican to sign onto that discharge petition – or any Democratic discharge petition this Congress – amid GOP concerns about surrendering the House floor to Democrats. Driving the …

The Hill reports: The House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) from the group Tuesday night, three members of the conservative group told The Hill, a dismissal that comes days before he is set to retire from Congress. Buck — who has frequently broken from his party on various issues — was removed because “he hasn’t been …

The Colorado Sun reports: Rep. Ken Buck vehemently denied Thursday that his decision to resign from Congress before the end of his term was aimed at making it harder for Lauren Boebert to take over his 4th Congressional District seat as she and others have suggested. “It’s ridiculous,” Buck told The Colorado Sun. The Republican congresswoman has also tried to …

Axios reports: House Republicans are panicking about their shrinking majority after Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he will resign at the end of next week, stunning GOP leadership. That brought the GOP’s majority in the House down to just two seats — and raised speculation that GOP attrition could cost the party its majority before the Nov. 5 election. The …

“The uni-party is trying to do everything that they can to stop my candidacy to rig the election in Colorado. And, you know, this is breaking news as of yesterday. Ken Buck’s announcement yesterday was a gift to the uni-party. “The establishment concocted a swampy backroom deal to try to rig an election. An election that I’m winning by 25 …

The Colorado Sun reports: Rep. Ken Buck will leave Congress on March 22, the Windsor Republican announced Tuesday in a surprise decision that’s scrambling the already highly contentious and competitive race to replace him that includes U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. Gov. Jared Polis, who is responsible for setting the date of the special election, on Tuesday said he planned to …

Denver’s Fox affiliate reports: Only a handful of months after announcing his intent to not run for reelection, U.S. Representative Ken Buck has announced his intent to resign from the House by March 22. In a brief message sent Tuesday morning, the Republican from Windsor said his terms in office were “an honor.” Buck has previously discussed fractures in the …

“We’ve gone from a time when the Tea Party stood for conservative principles for constitutional principles, to a time where the populists have taken over the Republican Party and are really advocating things that I believe are very dangerous. “The MAGA crowd ran a primary against me last time I won 75-25. I’m not concerned about primary, I’m not concerned …

“Rob, that question to me is irrelevant. I prosecuted for 25 years. The question is, can I prove it? Can I prove that Joe Biden took some action? Can I prove that Joe Biden got money? “That’s the question that we have to answer before we impeach a president that has been duly elected by the American public, and that’s …

Mediaite has the transcript: KEN BUCK: My colleagues went out and talk to the public about how this was credible and how it was damning and how it proved President Biden’s – at the time Vice President Biden’s – complicity in receiving bribes. It appears to absolutely be false and to really undercut the nature of the charges. We’ve always …

“Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America and that’s everyone that is making that argument. Everyone who makes the argument that January 6 was an unguided tour of the Capitol is lying to America. “Everyone who says that the prisoners who are being prosecuted right now for their …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: Good news for the Country! Congressman Ken Buck of Colorado, a weak and ineffective Super RINO if there ever was one, announced today that he won’t be running again, which is a great thing for the Republican Party. He knew long ago he could never win against MAGA, so now he is, …

The New York Times reports: Representative Ken Buck, a conservative Colorado Republican who played a central role in ousting Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, said he will not seek re-election next year, citing his party’s election denialism and many members’ refusal to condemn the Jan. 6. 2021, assault on the Capitol. Mr. Buck, serving his fifth term from a sprawling …

Denver’s Fox affiliate reports: A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Ken Buck said the landlord of their Windsor office is terminating their lease after the congressman voted against Rep. Jim Jordan’s speakership bid. On NBC News Thursday, the congressman said, “I’ve been evicted from my office in Colorado. I have notice of an eviction because the landlord is mad with my …

The Hill reports: Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said Sunday that some Republicans’ floating to elect former President Trump as Speaker of the House won’t come to fruition. Buck told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that some GOP members’ push to nominate the former president as Speaker is “not going to happen” in the wake of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) ousting from …

The New York Post reports: The White House’s go-to Republican critic of the impeachment inquiry into President Biden is considering leaving Congress for a new job — and expressed interest in being an on-air commentator for CNN, The Post has learned. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), a five-term fiscal hawk, has surprised fellow conservatives by repeatedly criticizing the probe launched last …

GOP Rep. Ken Buck writes for the Washington Post: The House is back in session, and Americans are getting an up-close look at Washington’s dysfunction. We are barreling toward a government shutdown without making progress on cutting our out-of-control spending. Yet Republican leadership has decided to divert attention to an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. What’s missing, despite years of …